Wouldn't this just make you cry

Guyute · 02-22-2005, 08:28 PM

So yesterday afternoon this guy I work with walks up to another colleague of mine, pulls a wad of $100 bills from his pocket and says, very nonchalantly, "Oh by the way, here's your share". The wad was over $1100. This guy turns white and says "wtf?" (literally).

For the last two years, they both played 1 number each in a 2-person lottery pool, unbeknownst to the rest of us, and for this Saturday's draw, 1 series of numbers was ONE NUMBER AWAY from the jackpot of $9,000,000. CAN you imagine...I think I would throw up on the spot. They ended up winning over $2200 (over 130 tickets were the same- over $315,000 total), which is better than a bag over the head and a punch in the face, I guess.

I just had to share this- I am still freaking out.

richlevy · 02-22-2005, 08:33 PM

I always cry when someone hands me $1100. Here, why don't you bring a stack of hundreds over to my house and I'll show you real tears.

I'm just as happy to count what I have than what I just missed.

Guyute · 02-22-2005, 08:42 PM

Well-said. Don't get me wrong, I would dance a jig and be grateful if someone gave me $11 let alone $1100 ($1134 to be exact). It is just scary to think that these guys have been doing this for two years and never won more than $10 or so...then they come one number away from being able to knee my boss where it hurts and dance away madly...

xoxoxoBruce · 02-22-2005, 08:51 PM

Is that $11usd or $11can, and do we get to see a video of it?

Guyute · 02-24-2005, 08:18 AM

$$CDN. The exchange is currently what, 15-20%?

Oh and BTW in Canada they can't pay you $15 per week for the next 4300 weeks- it's a lump sum of $9,000,000 in the form of one cheque. AND Canadians are not taxed on the winnings, only on any interest if you deposit the money into a bank.

02-22-2005, 08:28 PM	#1
Guyute Gamehenge Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Halifax, NS Posts: 168	Wouldn't this just make you cry So yesterday afternoon this guy I work with walks up to another colleague of mine, pulls a wad of $100 bills from his pocket and says, very nonchalantly, "Oh by the way, here's your share". The wad was over $1100. This guy turns white and says "wtf?" (literally). For the last two years, they both played 1 number each in a 2-person lottery pool, unbeknownst to the rest of us, and for this Saturday's draw, 1 series of numbers was ONE NUMBER AWAY from the jackpot of $9,000,000. CAN you imagine...I think I would throw up on the spot. They ended up winning over $2200 (over 130 tickets were the same- over $315,000 total), which is better than a bag over the head and a punch in the face, I guess. I just had to share this- I am still freaking out. __________________ It's Really Plain and Easy To See, The Family grows like fungus on a tree.

02-22-2005, 08:33 PM	#2
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I always cry when someone hands me $1100. Here, why don't you bring a stack of hundreds over to my house and I'll show you real tears. I'm just as happy to count what I have than what I just missed. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

02-22-2005, 08:42 PM	#3
Guyute Gamehenge Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Halifax, NS Posts: 168	Well-said. Don't get me wrong, I would dance a jig and be grateful if someone gave me $11 let alone $1100 ($1134 to be exact). It is just scary to think that these guys have been doing this for two years and never won more than $10 or so...then they come one number away from being able to knee my boss where it hurts and dance away madly... __________________ It's Really Plain and Easy To See, The Family grows like fungus on a tree.

02-22-2005, 08:51 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Is that $11usd or $11can, and do we get to see a video of it? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-24-2005, 08:18 AM	#5
Guyute Gamehenge Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Halifax, NS Posts: 168	$$CDN. The exchange is currently what, 15-20%? Oh and BTW in Canada they can't pay you $15 per week for the next 4300 weeks- it's a lump sum of $9,000,000 in the form of one cheque. AND Canadians are not taxed on the winnings, only on any interest if you deposit the money into a bank. __________________ It's Really Plain and Easy To See, The Family grows like fungus on a tree.

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